x86: kvm: rate-limit global clock updates
When we update a vcpu's local clock it may pick up an NTP correction.
We can't wait an indeterminate amount of time for other vcpus to pick
up that correction, so commit 0061d53daf26f introduced a global clock
update. However, we can't request a global clock update on every vcpu
load either (which is what happens if the tsc is marked as unstable).
The solution is to rate-limit the global clock updates. Marcelo
calculated that we should delay the global clock updates no more
than 0.1s as follows:
Assume an NTP correction c is applied to one vcpu, but not the other,
then in n seconds the delta of the vcpu system_timestamps will be
c * n. If we assume a correction of 500ppm (worst-case), then the two
vcpus will diverge 50us in 0.1s, which is a considerable amount.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 773eba7..5ed9293 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1628,14 +1628,21 @@
* the others.
*
* So in those cases, request a kvmclock update for all vcpus.
- * The worst case for a remote vcpu to update its kvmclock
- * is then bounded by maximum nohz sleep latency.
+ * We need to rate-limit these requests though, as they can
+ * considerably slow guests that have a large number of vcpus.
+ * The time for a remote vcpu to update its kvmclock is bound
+ * by the delay we use to rate-limit the updates.
*/
-static void kvm_gen_kvmclock_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
+#define KVMCLOCK_UPDATE_DELAY msecs_to_jiffies(100)
+
+static void kvmclock_update_fn(struct work_struct *work)
{
int i;
- struct kvm *kvm = v->kvm;
+ struct delayed_work *dwork = to_delayed_work(work);
+ struct kvm_arch *ka = container_of(dwork, struct kvm_arch,
+ kvmclock_update_work);
+ struct kvm *kvm = container_of(ka, struct kvm, arch);
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) {
@@ -1644,6 +1651,15 @@
}
}
+static void kvm_gen_kvmclock_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
+{
+ struct kvm *kvm = v->kvm;
+
+ set_bit(KVM_REQ_CLOCK_UPDATE, &v->requests);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&kvm->arch.kvmclock_update_work,
+ KVMCLOCK_UPDATE_DELAY);
+}
+
static bool msr_mtrr_valid(unsigned msr)
{
switch (msr) {
@@ -7022,6 +7038,8 @@
pvclock_update_vm_gtod_copy(kvm);
+ INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&kvm->arch.kvmclock_update_work, kvmclock_update_fn);
+
return 0;
}
@@ -7059,6 +7077,7 @@
void kvm_arch_sync_events(struct kvm *kvm)
{
+ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&kvm->arch.kvmclock_update_work);
kvm_free_all_assigned_devices(kvm);
kvm_free_pit(kvm);
}